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by objclxt 13y ago
...which is one reason why I think a lot of people were really infuriated by the Surface RT. Microsoft didn't apply their own rules to themselves: they couldn't be bothered / didn't want to re-write Office for Metro, but
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by objclxt 13y ago
I think people here are making this out to be a considerably bigger deal than it actually is. Studios that make war films like having DoD support. It is a useful benefit. However, it's not required. Indeed, if you're shooting your
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by objclxt 13y ago
FWIW, GTA is developed by Rockstar North, rather than San Diego (which produced RDR), meaning they at least benefit from the additional employment protections offered in Europe (vs the US: things like 5+ weeks of paid holiday, etc). I can o
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by objclxt 13y ago
Omni probably gets quite a bit of 'preferential treatment' from developer relations than the normal, average developer. In the case of Apple, this probably includes dev relations actually answering their e-mails, getting advance
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by objclxt 13y ago
> What kind of monster are you that you don't think thats a laudable goal? I think there are many compelling ethical and philosophical arguments one can make against wanting everyone to live forever. We shouldn't confuse live
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by objclxt 13y ago
I don't think so - I think it's more that Apple are strongly pushing developers to support iOS 7 only for newer apps. Apple are now suggesting developers should be using auto layout by default (which in iOS 7 saves considerable
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by objclxt 13y ago
> Some of the most appreciated games of generations are deeply flawed. An example is Deus Ex, which is a very mediocre shooter Deus Ex, deeply flawed? I think a lot of people would disagree with you. I suppose you could come to that vi
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by objclxt 13y ago
> Yep: Elcomsoft iOS Forensic Toolkit[1] I think you missed the fairly huge disclaimer hidden away at the bottom of the page: > iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPad 2+, iPad Mini and iPod Touch 5th gen support is limited to jailbroken devices
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by objclxt 13y ago
Although it's more expensive to do a separate pilot, it's not always a waste of time or money. In many cases, ideas that on paper are very good don't translate well. A pilot lets you catch these problems and remedy them. If
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by objclxt 13y ago
> If Vodafone is anything like US carriers then your phone number is basically your account number Although to the customer it may appear that your phone number is your account number, that normally isn't the case. This is for a n
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by objclxt 13y ago
Me too, I lived in Bristol (also in the article, and where the original inventor lived). Sadly the shot tower has since shut down and been converted to a penthouse (I think - the article says offices, but I'm 99% sure the tower itself
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by objclxt 13y ago
Who's saying that? Certainly not the article this post links to.
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by objclxt 13y ago
You may not have been personally offended, but if you're not able to understand why somebody might have been offended then that really does sum up why lots of people think tech has a problem with misogyny. The fact 'it was a jok
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by objclxt 13y ago
That's really surprising to me. Is the NYC hackathon broadcast live as well? The main reason I assumed there was at least some vetting going on was because the potential for legal / embarrassment / etc on a live broadcast is
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by objclxt 13y ago
I think one of two things happened. The first is TechCrunch simply didn't screen the hacks being presented in any way before they went up on stage. The second is they did screen them, but whoever did the screening had no problem with t
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by objclxt 13y ago
The other major advantage of using ISO 8601 is it's human readable . Very few people are going to be able to look at a Unix timestamp and convert it in their head (...if you can that's a good party trick).
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by objclxt 13y ago
> If college stops becoming the path to getting high paying, high status jobs, it will not be worth the cost Oh, definitely. The cost is a huge problem. I think elite universities realise this - financial aid is, at universities that c
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by objclxt 13y ago
You're right - I'm simplifying considerably. College is not for everyone, and there are many positive life-changing things one can do that don't involve going to university. The thing is that even at universities like Harva
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by objclxt 13y ago
...yes. I think it sort of undermines his point. Because people might not care about drinking Coke or Pepsi, but lots of people would pick a brand name cola above a generic one. The same with colleges: you could go to Harvard, Yale, Penn,
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by objclxt 13y ago
He assumes that you should go to Harvard because you want to get a good job and leave with the best qualifications. This is not why you should go to Harvard. Harry Lewis (who has an excellent blog that's well worth reading if you'
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by objclxt 13y ago
To be honest, I doubt it was how Microsoft planned it turning out. It certainly wasn't Plan A. Microsoft had already made a significant cash injection into Nokia. Plan A would have been for the Lumia handsets to be a massive success,
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by objclxt 13y ago
> Things cost exactly the same here (in Australia) as they do in the US That's not true. The cost of living in Australia is considerably higher than in the US. Melbourne and Sydney are both in The Economist's Worldwide Cost o
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by objclxt 13y ago
> while Woz was technically employed at Apple until 1987 I think that Woz is actually still employed at Apple even today. According to both his personal website and autobiography he still takes a paycheck (Wikipedia says around $120k
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by objclxt 13y ago
> There are large problems humans don't have answers to, but we're busy making things then figuring out how the things we made work Many technologies have been developed or accelerated through the need to reverse engineer som
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by objclxt 13y ago
Why? They make the front page because people view and up-vote them. People are clearly interested in them... It's a new story, and gender dysphoria is a topic that I think is well worth discussing.
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by objclxt 13y ago
> I don't see how the taxpayers should pay for this [...] I don't care if he wants to become a girl, but he should wait until his/her time is served. Gender identity disorder / gender dysphoria is a genuine medical
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by objclxt 13y ago
> It’s not entirely clear how humanity would suffer were all private equity CEOs, lobbyists, PR researchers, actuaries, telemarketers, bailiffs or legal consultants to similarly vanish. (Many suspect it might markedly improve.) We&#x27
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by objclxt 13y ago
> I am not sure if aid and scholarship are the same thing. At most Ivy Leagues it effectively is. Harvard also has a 'no debt' policy, so that aid really does have very few strings attached. The Crimson article you linked to
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by objclxt 13y ago
The 'sticker price' comparison is really misleading here. I don't think the Wall Street Journal do anything to correct this. Here's what the article says: > A degree [at Minerva] will cost less than half the averag
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by objclxt 13y ago
Here's one, from Bruce Schneier some nine years ago: > It took the academic community two decades to figure out that the NSA "tweaks" actually improved the security of DES http://news.cnet.com/Saluting-the-

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